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(No Model.)

' S. W. SHOREY.

, BUTTON. No. 505,962. Patented 001:. 3,1893.

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SAMUEL WV. Sl-I OREY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 505,962, dated October3, 1893.

Applioationfiled January 31, 1893. Serial No. 460,413. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL W. SHOREY, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State ofMassachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inButtons, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in buttons and particularly tothose buttons made of metal and commonly known to the,

trade as rivet buttons, that is those buttons which are intended to besecured to clothor fabric by means of a tack, rivet, or other metalfastener, the article in the present instance being particularlydesigned or adapted for use on mens drawers, the object ofthe same beingto devise a button which shall be sim{ ple in construction, andconsequently cheap to manufacture and at the same timeneat inappearance, the several parts being so arranged that although a soft orcheap metal may be used in making the front and backplates thereof, yetthe finished article will be sufficient to withstand any strain to whichit might be subjected when applied to the garment referred to, andfurther that by its peculiar construction and arrangement of parts, thetwo plates of which the button is composed will not become separatedfrom each other when the garment to which it is secured is put through awashing or wringing machine as is now the case with the common form ofdrawer buttons.

With these objects in view my invention consists in certain novelfeatures of construction as will be hereinafter fully described andpointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a sectional View of myimproved button showing the latter attached to the cloth or fabric, andtaken on the line 11 of Fig. 5. Fig. 2 is a similar view of a buttoncontaining my invention, the front or face plate of which is The metalgenerally used in the manufacture of drawer buttons is zinc, by reasonof the fact that'it does not stain or discolor the clothing, but theserious difficulty heretofore met with in the use of this metal is theliability of the parts becoming separated, as it is well known that thismetal is very soft and incapable of withstanding any great amount ofstrain.

.By reason of the peculiar construction of my improved button, thestrain thereon is exerted through the fastener upon the end of a tubulareyelet a, which passes through the central registering openings in thefront and back plates and has its extreme ends I) bent or turned overupon the same, the upper bent end, or flange thus formed, being ofsufficient width to allow the swaged or upset end of the metal fastenerto bear thereon. This metal eyelet a is made of metal having sufficientstrength to withstand the greater part of the strain which might beimposed upon the button, a further function of the same being to assistin looking the two plates A and B together, a further locking of suchplates being effected by overturning or bending the outer edge of thetop plate A on to the corresponding edge of the back or lower plate B.

The simplest form of this button is shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings, thetwo plates A and B being slightly dished in order to accommodate theclinched or overturned end of the fastener or rivet c, which ispreferably pointed at its piercing end. In Fig. 2, however, I have shownthe button in its preferred construction, that is a button formed asabove de scribed and substantially similar in all re spects to thatshown in Fig. 1, with the addition of a cloth covering 01 on the outersurface of the face plate A, the outer edge of this cover being securedbetween the outer locked edges of the plates A and B, and the edgesurrounding a central opening formed therein, secured between the plateA and the upper overturned flange Z) in the eyelet a, this form ofbutton being preferred on account of the application for which it isparticularly designed, the additional cloth cover being nominal in cost,yet adding materially to the appearance of the finished article.

While I have described the plates A and B as being slightly dished, I donot wish to con fine the claim thereto, as shapes or contours thereofmay be varied to suit the tastes of the manufacturer or consumer, as forinstance in Fig. 3 I have shown the top plate Aformed of anapproximately straight surface and with a central depression a for thereception of the overturned end of the metal fastener c, and in Fig. 4,I have shown the upper end of the eyelet a slightly enlarged for thesame purpose, the object being to prevent where possible the extensionof the swaged end of the rivet 0 above the surface of the face plate A.

In securing the button to the fabric, the metal fastener c is firstdriven through the material f, and passing through the tubular eyelet ais clinched, upset or swaged at its piercing end, by means of a suitabletool (notshown) applied directly thereto, said upset end of the rivetbearing on the flange b of said eyelet a, which being of hard metal willnot yield to any ordinary strain exerted on. the fastener, and as theflanged ends of said eyelet cover or overlie so large a portion of theplates A and B, the liability of the latter becoming disengaged isefiectually prevented.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A button adapted to be secured to fabric by a metal fastener andconsisting of a front and back plate interlocked at their outer edgesand having registering openings therein, and

upon the outer sides of said plates, substantially as and for thepurpose set forth.

3. A button consisting of two plates interlocked at their outer edgesand provided with central openings registering with each other, atubular eyelet fitted in said registering openings and having its endsflanged over the outer sides of said plates as described, and a coveringof cloth or fabric overlying said upper plate, and secured at its outeredge between the interlocking edges of said plates,

and at the center between said upper plate and flanged end of saidtubular eyelet, substantially as described.

Signed at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts,this 24th day of January, A. D. 1893.

SAMUEL W. SHOREY.

Witnesses:

JOHN W. GORMAN, JOSIAH B. CHASE.

